It was based on a template from thecoverproject.net, but most cases on there are horrible things, just standard CD cases stretched vertically. Mine's a bit more custom and original, I think. I've got my version of the template uploaded here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z74KIXIS
The layers are a bit messy, but let's see what you can do
I think I'm gonna start doing this again with my Sega CD cases and Saturn Cases. I've lost so many of them over the years that all the games just sit in crappy thin cases and CD books now.
keep the games in the cases. ive put some o lets say 180+ ps1 and ps2 games in a cd folder and after a while the games were getting fairly light scratches. so since then all of my dreamcast games are in their cases save except for a few that are duplicates that i play so i do not have to play the pretty looking ones.
Yeah, the death of the project was a bummer. I was fairly well involved in it towards its close as well.
What I had been working on was the image buffet -- basically, you have a series of templates which can be used with a variety of images.
Basically, you pick and choose the front and back covers you want, your spine type (slim, wide, extra wide), any special graphics (such as the spine color and logos, etc) and then just apply them all. Utilizing gimp on the backend, the images are combined, any text is rendered in an anti-aliased font, and the finished cover is uploaded to the user. You can create profiles of elements, so you can easily apply them all to a series of games (a complete system). Images are stored in a database with some rudimentary ranking and sibling relations-ships to make things a bit easier. You can have private images, so you could have say "Bubba's Saturn Games", or some such on all your discs without sharing that element with other users.
It was the idea of making Dreamcast, covers which got me thinking that customization was key. I really do not like the US motif with the curved border on the front -- which mimics the contours of the Dreamcast, itself. But that seems to be what everyone wants.
The shit is working on my development machine, but the administrator of the Saturn Slim website couldn't figure out how to get the programs and libraries installed on his web server -- and thus, that kinda died. I still hope to utilize the system, and will probably bug the people at the Cover Project before too long.
While I am a fan of DVD cases for my backups, I discovered that my colour printer is all out of ink. And since I have some other major expenses coming up next month I wont be buying a new one until probably next year (the current one is an old hp deskjet...). Well that and I kinda need a place to store them.
This is just means I will have to stretch out those saturn ones for standard DVD case size so everything plays nicely together.
I think I know a few people around here already though..
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